扩展性对话:网络协商民主包容性与理性的融通

Expandable Dialogue:Integration of Inclusiveness and Rationality in Internet Deliberative Democracy

协商民主的实现依赖非正式的、发生在公民社会中的对话协商。互联网使用大大提升了协商的包容性,突破了人口规模和空间范围对对话协商实践的限制,成为应对多元利益诉求的最佳途径。但参与者选择性的网络交往和信息接触、对网络协商强势舆论的群体盲从、多种多样的非理性参与行为以及过滤泡效应等,造成包容性与深思熟虑的公共理性之间的二元悖论,导致网络协商参与主体之间的沟通和对话阻碍。扩展性对话创建了参与主体间的关系理性,能够建立融通理性与包容性的条件和机制,形成包容性的网络政治参与及深思熟虑的理性判断之间的平衡和融合。扩展性对话有助于解决网络空间协商民主发展的障碍。

The realization of deliberative democracy depends on informal dialogue and consultation in civil society.Internet using has greatly enhanced the inclusiveness of online consultation,breaking through the limits of population size and spatial scope on the practice of deliberative democracy,and becoming the best way to respond to multiple interests.However,participants’selective online interactions and information exposure,group blindness to strong public opinion on online consultation,diverse irrational participation,and the filter bubble effect create the dichotomy paradox between inclusiveness and thoughtful public rationality,resulting in impeded communication and dialogue among different online consultation participants.The expandable dialogue model creates a relational rationality among participants,establishes conditions and mechanisms to blend rationality and inclusiveness,and forms a balance and integration between inclusive and thoughtful rational judgment.The expandable dialogue helps to address the obstacles to the development of deliberative democracy in cyberspace.